Still Life

With four guide ropes attached to it, the east-side clock face is raised into position. While it didn't seem that windy on the ground on Saturday, Jan. 28, winds higher up were strong, requiring extra guidance to bring the clock face safely to the Old Main bell tower.

Old Main clock faces installed

Ben White of New Vibrations Audio and Video works on a ledge of the Old Main bell tower, to remove the speakers from the old chime system. The company installed a new carillon system today (Jan. 27) that will play a digital recording made of the original Old Main bell that now sits adjacent to Old Main and other bells of comparable sizes.

New carillon, restored clocks being installed

The funeral procession for Joe Paterno made its way past Beaver Stadium and down Porter Road as crowds applauded on Jan. 25. Thousands lined the procession route through the University Park campus and downtown State College to bid a last farewell to Joe Paterno.

Joe Paterno's funeral procession

Coach Joe Paterno was on the field for the first half of the Nittany Lions' football game. Penn State beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 13-3 on Oct. 8, 2011, in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Beaver Stadium.

Joe Paterno through the years

Katie Knobloch and Andrew Adamietz, members of the a capella group Blue in the Face, shared a candle at the vigil held Sunday, Jan. 22, to mourn the death of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who passed away earlier in the day. Several thousand members of the Penn State and State College community came out to the Old Main lawn on Penn State's University Park campus for the vigil.

Thousands mourn Paterno's passing

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Friday, March 19, 2010
Indra K. Nooyi
Indra K. Nooyi

University Park, Pa. — The woman who oversees the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands will receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Penn State. Penn State's Board of Trustees today (March 19) approved Indra K. Nooyi, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, to receive the degree at a future University commencement ceremony.

Nooyi directs a corporation with 285,000 employees worldwide and annual revenue nearing $60 billion, generated from businesses including Frito-Lay, Quaker, Pepsi-Cola, Tropicana and Gatorade.

Named president, chief financial officer and member of PepsiCo's board of directors in 2001, president and CEO in 2006 and chairman in May 2007, Nooyi has overseen the company's global strategy for more than a decade. She led the corporation's restructuring, which included acquiring Tropicana and merging with Quaker Oats, among other strategic undertakings. She also is credited as the chief architect of PepsiCo's long-term growth strategy, termed Performance with Purpose, which aims to bring the corporation continued success using health-minded and ecologically sustainable practices.

Chair of the U.S.-India Business Council, Nooyi serves as a member of the boards of The Consumer Goods Forum, Catalyst and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She also is Successor Fellow of Yale Corporation.

Before her arrival at PepsiCo in 1994, Nooyi was a member of the senior strategic leadership team for Zurich-based industrials company Asea Brown Boveri, Motorola and The Boston Consulting Group. She began her career in India in product management for Johnson & Johnson and textile firm Mettur Beardsell Ltd.

Nooyi earned her undergraduate degree from Madras Christian College, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta and a master of public and private management from Yale University.

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